When you think of Cape Cod architecture, you might call to mind shuttered, clapboard cottages with pitched roofs and gables — not the Bauhaus. But between the 1940s and '70s, Wellfleet was a hotbed of modern architecture, and home to some of the movement’s biggest names. In 1936, Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius — who had just accepted a teaching position at Harvard’s new Graduate School of Design — rented a summer house on Planting Island in Marion, Massachusetts, near the base of Cape Cod, with his wife, Ise. They weren’t the only European émigrés to settle down in the area: Over the course of the late '30s and early '40s, Hungarian designer and architect Marcel Breuer, British architect Serge Chermayeff, artists György and Juliet Kepes, and Finish architect Olav Hammarström all bought plots on the Outer Cape shore — where, amid the pine trees and sand dunes, avant-garde cottages began to pop up.
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